Benona
Only 13 Polish women carry it, and no girl has been given it since at least 2000: most Poles have never met one. The root is Germanic, with the sense "good, kind".
Benona Pronunciation
Benona is pronounced be-NO-nah (/bɛˈnɔna/).
What Benona means
Where Benona comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Benona came into Polish through Germanic roots, and it keeps company with a shorter form, Benon. Both names hold the same meaning, good and kind. In Polish that is written "dobra, życzliwa".
The Germanic origin points to a word for goodness, a readiness to wish others well. Germanic names often pack a single virtue into one word, and Benona does that with kindness. The meaning belongs to the name, not to any verdict on the person.
Benona stays uncommon. On a Polish class register it might stand alone among the Annas and the Katarzynas. Benon, the masculine variant, turns up more often, and he marks his imieniny on 16 June. Both forms trace back to the same Germanic sense of good and kind.
When Benona celebrates name day
Benona appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 16 June.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Benona
1 in 1734141 women in Poland is named Benona. 13 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #13198 among female names.
Benona as a middle name
Benona is a first name for 13 women in Poland and a middle name for another 20, a 39/61 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1601st, between Balwina (20) and Cezara (20).
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#1599 Anneli20
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#1600 Balwina20
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#1601 Benona20
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#1602 Cezara20
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#1603 Cezaryna20